Tips for Buying a new Hard Drive

[Al Poulin]

Richard Kriss <kriss at qsl.net> wrote:

> What are some of the things I should look for  in shopping for a new drive
> other than price?

7200 rpm.  Depending on how you use the system, say heavy video/photo work,
you may want to optimize for data transfer time over seek and latency times,
or vice versa for working many small files.  For routine, casual home use,
ignore these factors.  Take a good look at the Seagate Barracuda series.

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Al Poulin
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